Chocolate gingerbread mummies

Chocolate gingerbread mummy cookies are the perfect Halloween treat. Simple to make, but very tasty, they’re a great spooky bake for any Halloween party.

Chocolate gingerbread mummies are a delicious, spooky Halloween snack. They’re a simple, tasty cookie made extra spooky with some icing bandages and some icing eyes. You can make these with any stiff biscuit recipe but we’ve gone with chocolate gingerbread as the dark colour stands out against the white of the bandages.

The biscuits are based on a great, easy bake but are made into cute, but spooky characters with a little extra effort. If you want to make these even easier you could ‘cheat’ and simply decorate some shop bought gingerbread men!

How can kids help to make these chocolate gingerbread mummy cookies?

These biscuits are really easy to make so they’re a great bake for little kids. They can help to measure and mix all the ingredients together. The first step is to rub the butter into the flour which is a fun, tactile job my kids always enjoy.

Once you’ve made the dough you need to rool and cut it out into gingerbread men shapes. This is a fun job for kids, especially if they like playing with playdough. It’s quite a robust dough so will take a little bit of man handling from little ones!

Finally, your kids can help you to decorate the mummies. Or if you want, you can skip the previous steps and just get your kids to help with the decorating! If you have an icing piper, attach a flat nozzle and simply get your kids to pipe strips of bandage on to each cookie. And if you have very young children that might find that step hard, just put them in charge of adding the icing eyes.

How long do chocolate gingerbread mummies keep?

These cookies will keep in an air tight container for a few days. You can make the biscuits ahead of time and freeze them for up to three months. Defrost them fully at room temperature before you decorate them.

Other fun Halloween bakes

If your kids loved using the googly eyes to make some fun Halloween treats, why not check out some of our other spooky Halloween bakes.

Halloween monster cupcakes
Halloween brownies
Halloween spider cookies
Halloween monster biscuits
Spider web biscuits

Useful equipment

You might need the following baking tools/gadgets to make these chocolate mummy cookies

Digital scales
Freestanding mixer
Mixing bowl
Measuring cups
Measuring spoons
Gingerbread man cookie cutter
Googly eyes
Wire rack

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Difficulty: Easy

Time: 40 minutes + 10 minutes baking

Serves: approx 30 men

Ingredients

300g (1 2/3 cup) plain flour
120g (1/2 cup) butter
40g (1/3 cup) cocoa
1 tbsp ground ginger
120g (2/3 cup) brown sugar
1 egg
100g (1/4 cup) golden syrup

For the decoration
Icing sugar
Googly icing eyes

how to make chocolate gingerbread mummies

Rub the flour and butter together

Get your child to help measure out the flour and butter. Cut the butter into small pieces and add them to a large mixing bowl.

Using your finger tips, rub the butter into the flour until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.

Add the cocoa powder, ginger and sugar

Measure out the cocoa, ginger and sugar and add them to your mixing bowl. When your kids are measuring the ginger, make sure they use their finger to level the tablespoon so that you add just the right amount.

Mix everything together.

Add the egg and golden syrup

Get your kids to crack the egg into a small bowl before giving it a little whisk and adding it to your mixing bowl. We never add ours straight in just in case any shell goes in. If/when it does, simply fish it out with a larger piece of shell or a teaspoon. It will stick to that better than it will your finger (and be less messy.)

Measure out the golden syrup and add it to your mixing bowl.

Stir them in so the dough starts to come together

Make the dough

Keep mixing the dough until it all comes together in a ball. You might need to use your hands and kneed it a bit so it stops crumbling apart and sticks together in a ball.

Make the biscuits

Roll your dough out on a lightly flour work surface (or in between two pieces of baking paper), until it is about the thickness of a pound coin. If your kids enjoy playing with playdough they should be good at this!

Using a biscuit cutter cut out your gingerbread men and carefully transfer them to a baking tray lined with baking paper.

Leave a bit of space (a few cm) between your men as they will spread a bit as they cook.

Pop the baking trays in the fridge for 10 minutes or so to chill while you preheat your oven.

Bake the chocolate gingerbread mummy cookies

Heat the oven to 180C / 160C Fan / 350F.

Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes. They might be a little soft to touch but should firm up as they cool.

Remove them from the oven and leave them to cool for a few minutes before popping them on a wire rack to cool completely.

Decorate your mummies

Once your biscuits are fully cooled mix some icing sugar and water together until you have a fairly stiff paste. We used our icing piper to drizzle the bandages on each of the gingerbread mummies.

Before the icing dries add a few icing eyes.

Leave the icing to set, serve and enjoy.

chocolate gingbread mummies on an orange plate.

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